Curses wanna talk curses? Lets talk curses.
First and foremost a spell of any kind is a tool. Curse, hex, blessing, or otherwise. They, despite being ×made× of magic (a force that by definition technically untamable ) for this explanation we have to set the grounds that when you're casting a curse you are using magic as a tool for your own "reasons" whatever they may be.
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What makes the energy or the particular spell a curse can be any number of things each one as arguable as the next. Where all of these voices meet harmony however is in the fact that curses are expensive and that they come from a darker* side of magic so to speak.
For our example we are going to use a basic binding curse you can use positively. . . or negatively.
The happy medium we're going to look at is the moon. Or as we love to call it love to call [the magic ruler📏]
Many would say that the best time to cast a curse is during a new moon. This tells us two bits of information.
1) The New Moon is the (I am) of the phases. Good for banishing, divination, and soul searching. The phase that tells us to look literally into our own darkness and consider what we want. In the cycle of moon phases the new moon comes between the preparing and resting phase. Its synonymous to Yule. The darkest part of the year. After all the harvest and whatnot. it could be this relations that gives the moon it's darker inner more deconstructive energy.
But the cool part is that curses let you "bend the universe a bit" in that you get to make selfish request. (For a price) You get to tell he universe what you want. And to be honest that's not something a lot of people have the ability to do. But hey, it's "Christmas". (For a price)
But anyway the most popular curses bind or restrict in some way. The destruction of ones power. Or the sealing away of something.
(MRK-arcanum copula-MCK [mystery band]) is a 1 day sealing curse used to place a restriction on a small thing like a habit a negative though or a hamster. A "cloth" band around the subject wrist sealing a portion of the casters "vibes chi magic energy etc" in exchange for the restriction or sealing of the *thing*. The bonus is that the habit or thing in question for 24hours is sealed, the downside is that if the seal is broken the power is lost for good.
On the other hand in the event that you can manage to not break the seal the power used will be returned at the end of the day with an bit of an increase. [Like a magic bank or something]
For that example a curse is used positively. Of course you can use it to restrict your "friends" too but we wouldn't want that. And we often find that the cost for curses are much greater than those of other spells and have a higher rate of "backfire" so to speak. This is the favorite depiction in media as we see often this is a staple in media but with all magic if you can mitigate the circumstances and Known What THE HECK YOURE DOING magic is a free court.
"Do as ye may and harm none" is the way.
And 2) because the new moon is best for these types of spells, youre going to be casting your curses in broad daylight. The new moon rises with the sun so if youre going to be casting curses the early bird gets the work child.
Hope this helps Azphelumbra students.